Former W.A.S.P. Bassist JOHNNY ROD Guests On Waste Some Time With Jason Green; Video Interview

May 31, 2021, 2 years ago

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Former W.A.S.P. Bassist JOHNNY ROD Guests On Waste Some Time With Jason Green; Video Interview

Johnny Rod played bass for W.A.S.P. from 1986 - 1993, appearing on Inside The Electric Circus, Live... In The Raw, and The Headless Children. 

Rod recently appeared on Waste Some Time With Jason Green. During the 40-minute interview, which can be viewed below, Johnny talks about: his time in King Cobra, how he got the gig in W.A.S.P., why he left W.A.S.P., the last time he spoke to Blackie Lawless, his job as a paramedic in Pittsburgh, what he's up to now, and much more.

Johnny Rod is featured in a teaser for Mean Man: The Story Of Chris Holmes, available now on Blu-ray, DVD and VOD. The DVD and Blu-ray are full of extras not available on the VOD version.

Iconic W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes has lived a life of highs and lows. This musical journey draws parallel stories of his rise, fall, and rebirth with live performance, interview, behind-the-scenes, and archival footage.

Written and directed by French filmmakers Antoine de Montremy and Laurent Hart (whose Music production career includes televised interviews with Scorpions, Deep Purple, Slayer, Guns N' Roses and more), Mean Man: The Story of Chris Holmes was a project that was born in 2014 after they had an opportunity to meet and direct Holmes in a music video for the Holmes-penned song "Let It Roar" in Cannes, France. At that time, the former W.A.S.P. guitarist had more or less disappeared from the music scene, leaving his home in the US to seek a new beginning with his wife Sarah in France. Not content with merely directing a music video for the re-born Holmes, de Montremy pursued his bigger dream of writing and directing a documentary film about this iconic metal guitar legend and for the next several years shadowed him throughout Europe while filming everything from band rehearsals, to recording sessions to live performances.

By creatively combining archival footage, interviews with past and present band members and musical peers, family members and childhood friends - interspersed with beautifully filmed concert performances of Holmes' current solo band - Director de Montremy skillfully portrays the story of an iconic guitar player who has lived a life of extreme highs and lows. After losing the publishing rights of his own songs and combating dangerous addictions, the legendary W.A.S.P. guitarist is shown starting over from scratch while living at his mother-in-law's in Cannes, France as he puts together with his wife a brand new band and a brand new musical role as not only the main guitarist, but now as the actual lead singer of this newly-born musical project aptly named Mean Man.  

Montremy said: "Over the last five years, I've had the privilege to establish a true relationship with Chris Holmes and to follow him throughout Europe. I was impressed by his charisma, his approach towards life, his multiple experiences and taste for simplicity which have actually altered my own vision of existence. In fact, he has almost become a spiritual father to me, in the way that he inspired me in many of my own decisions."

 



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